Mastering Borland Delphi 2005

Mastering Borland Delphi 2005 is a new edition of the best-selling
Mastering Delphi series written by Marco Cantù and translated to a number of languages.

Mastering Borland Delphi 2005 is the completely revised and updated
edition of the industry's favorite Delphi programming book, and offers
the most complete coverage of Delphi 2005 programming available anywhere (which
is easy to claim as this is the only book on the topic).
The book already won two "Delphi Magazine Readers' Choice Awards" and
Marco received the "Spirit of Delphi" award also for this effort.

What's New

The new edition has a good amount of material on .NET programming, but retains also
a solid coverage of Win32 development, including all the new features of Delphi 2005 for Win32 (
language, RTL, VCL...).

Order the Book Online

You can order the book online through my site
from Amazon.com (current sale price is 37.79, with a 37%
discount, but prices on Amazon do change). You can order it on other amazons around the world by using the links ubove (under the book cover).

See also Marco's free books Essential Pascal and Essential
Delphi (in the side menu) and his white papers on Delphi programming.

Source Code

A preliminary version of the source code of the book is now ready. It includes 467 Delphi 2005 projects!
It is a "release canditate". You'll find examples for all of the chapters but 18 (the ECO chapter), which at the moment is a separate download.
For most chapters there are ready to use
projects groups for both Win32 versions and .NET versions.

The download file is now on the "Marco Cantu Tech World" Google Group,
in the files section (because of traffic
problems I've had on my main site), it is called md2005code.zip, and the size is 3.5 MB. The second file
is called ch18.zip and is only 194 KB.

Of course you can download it even if you don't have the book... and use the examples are starting points for your work. However,
you are not allowed to republish this examples and please do not repost (in the various ways now common...) this ZIP file as it is
subject to changes and it can be freeely grabbed here anyway -- now and in the future.

Translations

There are already some contacts to translate the book in
Simplified Chinese (Posts & Telecommunication Press, CHINA) and
Russian (Piter Print Ltd., RUSSIA). Mondadori Informatica has released it in Italian in January 2006.
I'll post a detailed list as soon
as translated books are released. Let me know if anything else is under development
or there is any update.

Part III: Delphi Database-Oriented Architectures

Chapter 14: Client/Server Development with the VCL Database Components

Chapter 15: Using ADO

Chapter 16: Using ADO.NET

Chapter 17: Multi Tier Architectures

Chapter 18: Enterprise Core Objects

Part IV: Delphi and the Internet

Chapter 19: HTML and HTTP Development

Chapter 20: WebSnap and IntraWeb

Chapter 21: The ASP.NET Architecture

Chapter 22: Using XML Technologies

Chapter 23: Web Services and SOAP

Appendixes

Appendix A: Learning the Foundations of Delphi

Appendix B: Add-on Delphi Tools

Delphi 2006 Ebook Update

I've started compiling a free ebook (at least free for now), with updated information regarding Delphi 2006.
The ebook covers only new features introduced in Delphi 2006. A very early (non-edited) draft of the first chapter was
available here as UpdateDelphi2006_EarlyDraft_1.pdf. Now the PDF format has been replaced by a more extensive version in
HTML, comprising several chapters paid by Google Adsense. A PDF version might become available again in the future.

Any feedback via newsgroup or email is appreciated. More chapters will be available shortly.